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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Susan Kane <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Absolutely this should be solved by the vendors / content providers but -- > just for the sake of argument -- it is a possible extension for LibX? > > You can't send a standard message everytime a user copies a URL from their > address bar -- they would kill you. > > Is there a way for a browser plugin to "know" that the user is on a > specific > website and to warn them for such actions while there? > > Or would that level of coordination between the website and the address bar > be (a) impossible or (b) not really not worth the effort or (c) a serious > privacy concern? > > Extensions such as LibX can certainly interpose when users bookmark items, at least in Firefox (and possibly Chrome). The question is how to determine if a URL is bookmarkable or not. This could be done either by consulting a database - online or built-in, or perhaps by using heuristics (for instance, URLs containing session ids are often not bookmarkable.) - Godmar